Maine Democrats look ready to nominate Graham Platner, a Marine veteran and "oyster farmer," to challenge Sen. Susan Collins (R-MA) in this year's Senate general election. If he somehow wins, Republicans would lose a Senate seat but gain something else entirely -- which would be six straight years of material...

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President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu aired their differences over resuming the war against Iran in a recent phone call that was rife with disagreement, according to a new report. The United States and Israel jointly attacked Iran on Feb. 28 in a conflict that halted April...

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A key member of President Donald Trump's national security team will leave the administration. White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles announced on Wednesday that Principal Deputy National Security Advisor Robert Gabriel Jr. will move on to other endeavors. "Today is a day I hoped would not come," Wiles wrote....

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Last month's Artemis II lunar flyby did not impress everyone. In a 29-second video posted Wednesday to the social media platform X, a man accosted Artemis II crew members inside the U.S. Capitol, accused them of faking the flyby, and repeatedly demanded that they repent. According to the NGO "Friends...

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President Donald Trump's long-discussed White House ballroom project has encountered a major obstacle. According to Politico, Republican senators will not include in their immigration enforcement funding bill a $1 billion request from the Secret Service that would have gone toward Trump's ballroom. Republican Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana broke the...

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NASCAR racer Kyle Busch will not compete in Sunday's Coca-Cola 600 due to an illness. “Kyle has experienced a severe illness resulting in hospitalization,” a statement from his family on his X account read. “He is currently undergoing treatment and will not compete in any of his scheduled activities this...

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A report released earlier this week revealed that a school district in California spent $300,000 to partner with an LGBT center that supplies "affirming programs, resources, and community care” to minors. Pomona Unified School District signed a memo of understanding for the 2024-2025 school year for a “mentoring program” with...

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In an ironic twist, the Democrats' quest to find out what went wrong in 2024 has itself gone terribly wrong. After more than a year of anticipation, suspicion, and all-around controversy, the Democratic National Committee finally turned over a version of its 2024 election autopsy to CNN, which published it...

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Federal officials are seeking a fraud suspect who escaped a massive series of arrests Thursday morning in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Muhammad Omar has been identified as one of 15 defendants accused of fraud in human and social services programs that defrauded governments out of about $90 million, according to KMSP-TV. Assistant...

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The Justice Department announced on Thursday the onboarding of over 80 new immigration judges, the largest addition in agency history. The Executive Office of Immigration added 77 full-time judges and 5 temporary ones, according to a DOJ news release. “The Trump administration is committed to reestablishing an immigration judge corps...

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A single chart shows the losses that Democrats have experienced in both federal and state offices to Republicans since 2009. The chart was part of a 2024 election autopsy released Thursday by the Democratic National Committee. "The said truth is Democrats have lost ground at every level from inconsistent messaging...

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The Senate has gone on recess without passing a bill to fund U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Border Patrol. The catalyst for leaving without passing a bill President Donald Trump wanted passed by June 1 was the proposed creation of a so-called “anti-weaponization fund” that would allow individuals...

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Only hours after his family alerted the NASCAR world that star driver Kyle Busch faced a severe illness and would not race in Sunday’s Coca-Cola 600, NASCAR announced the 41-year-old had died. “We are saddened and heartbroken to share the news of the passing of Kyle Busch, a two-time Cup...

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Most network executives have no problem extolling the benefits of live television programming. There's a certain unpredictability and "anything can happen" quality that can only exist in live programming. The problem, as CBS found out recently, is that "anything" can encompass the good, the bad, and the incredibly awkward. CBS's...

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It's a case of deadly injustice that's getting attention from Elon Musk. In a United Kingdom murder trial that's drawing international eyes, a court has learned that British police handcuffed an 18-year-old stabbing victim because they were told he'd racially insulted a Sikh man in the port city of Southampton....

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The United States Commission of Fine Arts gave the go-ahead on Thursday for President Donald Trump's 250-foot Triumphal Arch, which will be located near Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, D.C., to go forward. There were some slight modifications to the original design submitted to the entity last month based on...

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When a man whose rap sheet includes serial murder and serial arson calmly tells the public he believes he’ll one day walk through the gates of Heaven, the instinctive reaction for many people is disbelief. Maybe even outrage. Our minds immediately race to the faces of victims, to the terror...

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Former 16-term Democratic Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank died of congestive heart failure Wednesday at the age of 86. First elected to the House in 1980, Frank is known for being the co-author of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (“Dodd-Frank”) as well as being the first member...

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Mere days after the latest attempted assassination of President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, a federal employee was charged for allegedly making a threat against the commander-in-chief. Dean DelleChiaie, 35, who lives in Nashua, New Hampshire, and worked for the Federal Aviation Administration, searched the phrase "I...

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America does not need more Christians in politics. It needs Christians who carry the character of Christ into politics. As a pastor in California and an elected city councilman serving my third term, I’ve lived in two worlds that many people assume should never overlap. For the last 10 years,...

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A woman from New Braunfels, Texas, was indicted earlier this month for allegedly trying to torch a local Republican Party headquarters and two private businesses. Grace Carol Brown, a 22-year-old who subscribes to radical left-wing ideology, allegedly sought to burn down a building hosting the Comal County Republican Party Headquarters...

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